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In Nepal it is said that dogs are worshipped at the festival called Khicha Puja. Among the Harranians dogs were sacred, but this was rather as brothers of the mystae. Elephant.
The desire for salvation, for individual salvation, is manifest. But it was in rites and ceremonies that the mystae put their trust, and in the fact that they were initiated that they found their confidence so long as they could keep it.
Examples of this are so numerous that we have no space for a minute consideration. But certainly it is plain that the Eleusinia, as being more central, more purely spiritual, must in the thought of Greece have risen high above the drama. The very dress in which the mystae were initiated was preserved as most sacred or deposited in the temple.
George Meredith's poetry is still only the possession of a minority, even among those who form the poetic audience of a generation. There are many of us who have wanted much help, in regard to it, from others the young and ardent who are the natural initiates, the "Mystae" of the poetic world.
A representation is made of the Master, Biamban; and to make such idols, except at the Mysteries, is forbidden 'under pain of death. Those which are made are destroyed as soon as the rites are ended. This may, however, symbolise the 'new life' of the Mystae, 'Worse have I fled; better have I found, as was sung in an Athenian rite. The whole result is, by what Mr.
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